A01975:1728
A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God
A guide to go to God: or, An explanation of the perfect pattern of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friars LondonA guide to goe to God: or, An explanation of the perfect patterne of prayer, the Lords prayer. By William Gouge, B. in D. and minister of Gods Word in Black-Friers London
London: printed by G. Miller for Edward Brewster, 1626
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A. Of two. The first is in these words, And lead us not into temptation: which importeth a preventing of evil feared. The other is in these words,1 But deliver us from evil: which implieth a Recovering from evil fallen out. So as our desire in this Petition is, that God would be so far from giving us over, like a just and severe Judge, into the power of the executioners of his wrath, as rather, like a pitiful and merciful father, if at ⟨p. 228⟩any time we be over-taken by them, he would rescue and deliver us.
A. Of two. The first is in these words, And leade vs not into temptation: which importeth a preuenting of euill feared. The other is in these words,1 But deliuer vs from euill: which implyeth a Recouering from euill fallen out. So as our desire in this Petition is, that God would be so farre from giuing vs ouer, like a iust and seuere Iudge, into the power of the executioners of his wrath, as rather, like a pitifull and mercifull father, if at ⟨p. 228⟩any time wee bee ouer-taken by them, he would rescue and deliuer vs.
- 1Quod ille in ultimo posuit, Sed libera nos à malo, iste non posuit, ut intelligeremus ad illud superius quod de tentatione dictū est pertinere. Aug. ibid.Quod ille in vltimo posuit, Sed libera nos à malo, iste non posuit, vt intelligeremus ad illud superius quod de tentatione dictū est pertinere. Aug. ibid.
Q. What points are to be considered in the first part?